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Read more: The Abel prize winner was announced on March 20, 2013Simons Lecture in Berlin
In the year "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" there are nine lectures for the general public that are sponsored generously by the Simons foundation. The only European Simons lecture will take place in Berlin on May 23. There Rupert Klein will speak on "Klimathematik - Modelle, Daten und Strukturen".The Abel prize winner was announced on March 20, 2013
The Abel Prize winner 2013 is Pierre Deligne from Stanford University.MPE2013 launched
The initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013) was launched on December 7, 2012. The European MPE activities will start with the MPE2013 day at the UNESCO in Paris on March 5, 2013. More information on this event can be found on the MPE2013 homepage and also here on www.mathematics-in-europe.eu.
A compilation of these activities can be found here.
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The top five inspirations of the month
The favorite math items of May 2013 are provided by Raúl Ibanez from Bilbao (Spain). His first favorite is an interesting science blog (in Spanish).
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The quotation of the day
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
(Heinrich Hertz)
Historical reminder
On May 18, 1872, Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born in Ravenscroft (England). He is known as a philosopher, logician, mathematician, social scientist, and politician. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and after 1960 was a leading representative of the world peace movement. In mathematics, he worked on foundational questions (for example, Russell’s paradox on the set of all sets that are not members of themselves). Russell died on February 2, 1970, in Penrhyndeudraeth (Wales). More information can be found here.
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